We travel the world…
Because it keeps us awake
As kids
As adults
As parents
As humans
We travel the world
Because nature refines attention, and oceans, mountains and deserts stretch imagination far beyond schedules, curricula and expectations.
Because people’s stories reach further than any literature ever could.
Travel is not an escape from life; it is a school of life.
One that invites curiosity, adaptability and presence — the very qualities we wish to cultivate in our children, and continue to practice ourselves.
If you know my work around Erotic Intelligence, you know that curiosity is the ground tone of a full and meaningful life. Desire grows where we dare to look, to ask, to explore. Traveling together places us, again and again, in that space of not-knowing, where learning becomes embodied rather than instructed.
We live this as a family, not out of restlessness, but out of amor mundi: a love for the world, held with responsibility for one another and for all that lives. We resonate deeply with the wisdom of Ubuntu: we become human with and through others, inseparable from the natural world and community. In dialogue with places, cultures, people and seasons, our children learn not only who they are, but how they relate.
Over the years, we have travelled, lived and worked across Europe, La Réunion, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South Asia. Along the way, we learned to weave adventure and home, freedom and structure, exploration and grounding. Our children learn through lived experience — through languages heard, landscapes touched, rhythms felt.
On this website, I gather fragments of that journey: routes, rituals, encounters, reflections.
Not as a travel guide, and not as a parenting manual, but as an invitation.
An invitation to raise children with open eyes and rooted bodies.
To trust life as a teacher.
And to choose presence over perfection.
Heartcore.
Our Adventures (Dutch, for now)
Most people wouldn’t recognize the Garden of Eden if they walked straight through it. They’d keep their eyes on the ground, careful not to trip over the roots. The world is beautiful — so beautiful — but you have to truly look to see that beauty. That’s exactly what art, and artists, specialize in.
— David Hockney
